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1766 in Coll. Treaties of Peace, Alliance & Commerce (1772) II. 301 The possessor may present his paper, to the office of the Commission at Paris, there to be examined, revised, liquidated, and converted into reconnoissances, or rent contracts, according to the reduction fixed and agreed upon.

1876 Carroll County (Georgia) Times 21 Jan. 3/2 The rent contract was made with Mr. John Dunbar of Newman, though it is said others are associated with him.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. i. 14 But then I hear tell he always makes his rent contracts later than most.

2002 D. Wood Medieval Econ. Thought viii. 196 He, too, saw the rent contract as one of sale, but he suggested that what was sold was not money itself but a right to receive a particular sum of money over an agreed time span, or even for ever.